Top Cited Articles of All Time (2008 edition) in gr-qc

Top Cited Articles of All Time (2008 edition) in gr-qc

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2008 edition) in the gr-qc archive

Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact, there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically significant difference. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Mon 12-Jan-2009. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the links will take you to the updated numbers. The lists, however, will not update.

  1. 830
    The Einstein equation on the 3-brane world
    By Tetsuya Shiromizu (Cambridge U., DAMTP & Tokyo U. & Tokyo U., RESCEU), Kei-ichi Maeda (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge & Waseda U.), Misao Sasaki (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge & Tokyo U. & Osaka U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D62:024012,2000 (arXiv: gr-qc/9910076)
    [831 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 817
    Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    HEP Record (arXiv: gr-qc/9310026)
    [819 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 712
    Geometry of the (2+1) black hole
    By Maximo Banados (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & CECS, Valdivia & Brussels U. & CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago), Marc Henneaux (CECS, Valdivia & Brussels U.), Claudio Teitelboim (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:1506-1525,1993 (arXiv: gr-qc/9302012)
    [714 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 570
    Quasilocal energy and conserved charges derived from the gravitational action
    By J.David Brown, James W. York, Jr. (North Carolina U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D47:1407-1419,1993 (arXiv: gr-qc/9209012)
    [576 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 556
    An Alternative to quintessence
    By Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik (Landau Inst. & Landau Network Centro Volta), Ugo Moschella (Insubria U., Como & INFN, Milan), Vincent Pasquier (Saclay).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B511:265-268,2001 (arXiv: gr-qc/0103004)
    [557 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 475
    Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity
    By Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.), Lee Smolin (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B442:593-622,1995, Erratum-ibid.B456:753,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9411005)
    [475 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 443
    Metric affine gauge theory of gravity: Field equations, Noether identities, world spinors, and breaking of dilation invariance
    By Friedrich W. Hehl (Cologne U.), J.Dermott McCrea (University Coll., Dublin & Dublin Inst.), Eckehard W. Mielke (Cologne U.), Yuval Ne'eman (Tel Aviv U. & Texas U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.258:1-171,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9402012)
    [444 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 428
    Black hole entropy is the Noether charge
    By Robert M. Wald (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:3427-3431,1993 (arXiv: gr-qc/9307038)
    [431 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 404
    Exponential potentials and cosmological scaling solutions
    By Edmund J. Copeland, Andrew R Liddle (Sussex U.), David Wands (Portsmouth U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D57:4686-4690,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9711068)
    [405 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 400
    Some properties of Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy
    By Vivek Iyer, Robert M. Wald (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:846-864,1994 (arXiv: gr-qc/9403028)
    [402 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 399
    Brane world gravity
    By Roy Maartens (Portsmouth U., ICG).
    Published in:Living Rev.Rel.7:7,2004 (arXiv: gr-qc/0312059)
    [401 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 390
    Generalized Chaplygin gas, accelerated expansion and dark energy matter unification
    By M.C. Bento, O. Bertolami, A.A. Sen (Lisbon, IST).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D66:043507,2002 (arXiv: gr-qc/0202064)
    [391 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 378
    Quantum geometry and black hole entropy
    By A. Ashtekar (Penn State U.), J. Baez (UC, Riverside), A. Corichi (Penn State U. & Mexico U., ICN), Kirill Krasnov (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:904-907,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9710007)
    [379 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 368
    Background independent quantum gravity: A Status report
    By Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U. & Potsdam, Max Planck Inst. & Schrodinger Inst., Vienna), Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U. & Penn State U. & Potsdam, Max Planck Inst. & Schrodinger Inst., Vienna).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.21:R53,2004 (arXiv: gr-qc/0404018)
    [372 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 352
    Relativity in space-times with short distance structure governed by an observer independent (Planckian) length scale
    By Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (Rome U.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D11:35-60,2002 (arXiv: gr-qc/0012051)
    [353 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 334
    Quantum gravity and minimum length
    By Luis J. Garay (Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.A10:145-166,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9403008)
    [337 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 334
    Loop quantum gravity
    By Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.).
    Published in:Living Rev.Rel.1:1,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9710008)
    [336 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 321
    Introduction to modern canonical quantum general relativity
    By Thomas Thiemann (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    HEP Record (arXiv: gr-qc/0110034)
    [323 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 299
    Quantization of diffeomorphism invariant theories of connections with local degrees of freedom
    By Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U.), Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U.), Donald Marolf (UC, Santa Barbara), Jose Mourao (Algarve U.), Thomas Thiemann (Penn State U.).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.36:6456-6493,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9504018)
    [299 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 294
    Nonstandard optics from quantum space-time
    By Rodolfo Gambini (Republica U., Montevideo), Jorge Pullin (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D59:124021,1999 (arXiv: gr-qc/9809038)
    [294 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 293
    Kaluza-Klein gravity
    By J.M. Overduin (Victoria U.), P.S. Wesson (Waterloo U. & Stanford U., HEPL).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.283:303-380,1997 (arXiv: gr-qc/9805018)
    [294 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 290
    Quantum theory of geometry. 1: Area operators
    By Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U.), Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U. & Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.14:A55-A82,1997 (arXiv: gr-qc/9602046)
    [290 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 289
    The Confrontation between general relativity and experiment
    By Clifford M. Will (Washington U., St. Louis).
    Published in:Living Rev.Rel.4:4,2001 (arXiv: gr-qc/0103036)
    [289 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 287
    Quasinormal modes of stars and black holes
    By Kostas D. Kokkotas (Thessaloniki U.), Bernd G. Schmidt (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Living Rev.Rel.2:2,1999 (arXiv: gr-qc/9909058)
    [288 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 286
    The Gravitational Hamiltonian, action, entropy and surface terms
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.), Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.13:1487-1498,1996 (arXiv: gr-qc/9501014)
    [286 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 285
    A More accurate analytic calculation of the spectrum of cosmological perturbations produced during inflation
    By Ewan D. Stewart (Kyoto U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B302:171-175,1993 (arXiv: gr-qc/9302019)
    [285 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 285
    Quantum spin dynamics (QSD)
    By T. Thiemann (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.15:839-873,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9606089)
    [285 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 284
    Brane world cosmology
    By Daisuke Ida (Kyoto U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0009:014,2000 (arXiv: gr-qc/9912002)
    [284 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 284
    Classical black hole production in high-energy collisions
    By Douglas M. Eardley, Steven B. Giddings (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D66:044011,2002 (arXiv: gr-qc/0201034)
    [286 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 277
    Accelerating universes with scaling dark matter
    By Michel Chevallier (Tours U.), David Polarski (Tours U. & Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D10:213-224,2001 (arXiv: gr-qc/0009008)
    [278 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 275
    Reconstruction of a scalar tensor theory of gravity in an accelerating universe
    By B. Boisseau (Tours U.), G. Esposito-Farese (Marseille, CPT & Meudon Observ.), D. Polarski (Tours U. & Meudon Observ.), Alexei A. Starobinsky (Landau Inst. & Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.85:2236,2000 (arXiv: gr-qc/0001066)
    [277 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 271
    Classical equations for quantum systems
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech), James B. Hartle (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D47:3345-3382,1993 (arXiv: gr-qc/9210010)
    [271 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 269
    From the Big Bang theory to the theory of a stationary universe
    By Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Dmitri A. Linde (Gunn High School, Palo Alto), Arthur Mezhlumian (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:1783-1826,1994 (arXiv: gr-qc/9306035)
    [270 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 267
    General relativity as an effective field theory: The leading quantum corrections
    By John F. Donoghue (Massachusetts U., Amherst).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:3874-3888,1994 (arXiv: gr-qc/9405057)
    [267 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 261
    Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries: How accurately can one extract the binary's parameters from the inspiral wave form?
    By Curt Cutler, Eanna E. Flanagan (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:2658-2697,1994 (arXiv: gr-qc/9402014)
    [263 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 259
    Entropy, Area, and black hole pairs
    By S.W. Hawking, Gary T. Horowitz (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge), Simon F. Ross (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:4302-4314,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9409013)
    [261 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 255
    On the numerical integration of Einstein's field equations
    By Thomas W. Baumgarte (Illinois U., Urbana), Stuart L. Shapiro (Illinois U., Urbana, Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D59:024007,1999 (arXiv: gr-qc/9810065)
    [256 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 249
    Spin networks and quantum gravity
    By Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.), Lee Smolin (Penn State U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D52:5743-5759,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9505006)
    [249 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 248
    Real Ashtekar variables for Lorentzian signature space times
    By J.Fernando Barbero G. (Penn State U. & Madrid, IMAFF).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:5507-5510,1995 (arXiv: gr-qc/9410014)
    [248 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 244
    A New class of unstable modes of rotating relativistic stars
    By Nils Andersson (Washington U., St. Louis).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.502:708-713,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9706075)
    [244 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 238
    Evolution of binary black hole spacetimes
    By Frans Pretorius (Caltech & Alberta U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.95:121101,2005 (arXiv: gr-qc/0507014)
    [238 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 238
    Bohr's correspondence principle and the area spectrum of quantum black holes
    By Shahar Hod (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:4293,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9812002)
    [239 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 236
    Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences: 1. Signal-to-noise for inspiral, merger, and ringdown
    By Eanna E. Flanagan (Cornell U., LNS), Scott A. Hughes (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D57:4535-4565,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9701039)
    [236 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 233
    Accurate evolutions of orbiting black-hole binaries without excision
    By Manuela Campanelli, C.O. Lousto (Texas U., Brownsville & Texas U., Brownsville, CGWA), P. Marronetti (Florida Atlantic U.), Y. Zlochower (Texas U., Brownsville & Texas U., Brownsville, CGWA).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.96:111101,2006 (arXiv: gr-qc/0511048)
    [233 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 233
    Study of the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
    By John D. Anderson (Caltech, JPL), Philip A. Laing (Aerospace Corp.), Eunice L. Lau (Caltech, JPL), Anthony S. Liu (Astrodynamic Sci.), Michael Martin Nieto (Los Alamos), Slava G. Turyshev (Caltech, JPL).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:082004,2002 (arXiv: gr-qc/0104064)
    [235 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 232
    Indication, from Pioneer 10 / 11, Galileo, and Ulysses data, of an apparent anomalous, weak, long range acceleration
    By John D. Anderson (Caltech), Philip A. Laing (Aerospace Corp.), Eunice L. Lau (Caltech), Anthony S. Liu (Astrodynamic Sci.), Michael Martin Nieto (Los Alamos), Slava G. Turyshev (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:2858-2861,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9808081)
    [233 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 228
    Geometrodynamics of Schwarzschild black holes
    By Karel V. Kuchar (Utah U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:3961-3981,1994 (arXiv: gr-qc/9403003)
    [230 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 219
    Quantum geometry of isolated horizons and black hole entropy
    By A. Ashtekar (Penn State U. & Santa Barbara, KITP), John C. Baez (UC, Riverside & Penn State U.), Kirill Krasnov (UC, Santa Barbara & Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.4:1-94,2000 (arXiv: gr-qc/0005126)
    [221 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 215
    Relativistic spin networks and quantum gravity
    By John W. Barrett (Nottingham U.), Louis Crane (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.39:3296-3302,1998 (arXiv: gr-qc/9709028)
    [215 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 215
    Quantum effects can render w < -1 on cosmological scales
    By V.K. Onemli (Orsay, LPT), R.P. Woodard (Florida U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D70:107301,2004 (arXiv: gr-qc/0406098)
    [217 Total citations in HEP]